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How Fingerprinting Food Stamp Recipients Hurts Everyone

New York will stop fingerprinting its food stamp recipients. That's good for the hungry—and the economy.

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Hustlin': How to Apply for Food Stamps

An eye-opening journey through the world of EBT cards.

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Watch Your Mouth: What Should Food Stamps Subsidize? Should Food Stamps Pay For Junk Food?

The federal food stamp program is about alleviating poverty, not discouraging obesity, so farmers' markets or fatty snacks are both fair game.

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Nearly 50 Million Americans Have Difficulty Obtaining Food

New USDA research reveals the huge number of people struggling to eat, the reason our welfare programs are so necessary right now.

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15 Percent of Americans Are Now on Food Stamps

The number of people getting money to feed themselves and their families hit an all-time high in May.

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Food Studies: Farmers' Market Ethnography

In which Erin, cupcake baker turned gastronomy student, leaves the safety of the library to conduct on-the-ground food stamp research.

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More People Now Collect Food Stamps Than Live in California and Texas Combined

Food stamp usage is up 14 percent from last year, with tens of millions of Americans using the service and costing the country $6 billion a month.

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Food Stamp Use at NYC Greenmarkets Doubled Last Year

Over the past couple of years, New York's City Council has spent $1.3 billion equipping farmers' markets with machines that can process food...